Art is purposiveness without purpose.

Men will not understand ... that when they fulfil their duties to men, they fulfil thereby God's commandments; that they are consequently always in the service of God, as long as their actions are moral, and that it is absolutely impossible to serve God otherwise.

Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

Physicians think they do a lot for a patient when they give his disease a name.

[A ruler is merely] the trustee of the rights of other men and he must always stand in dread of having in some way violated these rights.

An organized product of nature is that in which all the parts are mutually ends and means.

Deaths, births, and marriages, considering how much they are separately dependent on the freedom of the human will, should seem to be subject to no law according to which any calculation could be made beforehand of their amount; and yet the yearly registers of these events in great countries prove that they go on with as much conformity to the laws of nature as the oscillations of the weather.